This post is born of my curiosity about something quite obviously apparent in the photography industry at present. As more and more cameras are produced, of course the prices get lower, and the entry level cost for aspiring photographers becomes easi...
As more and more of our world is digitised -- sales, maps, encyclopaedias, books, music, phone calls, radio, TV, you name it, it travels digitally -- companies constantly have to choose what to automate and what has to be done by human beings. In oth...
I've been lending a hand to my brother to get a business idea out of his head and into the 'real world'. It's an interesting concept called "The Productivity Paradox", a notion he has been talking about for some time already, which he now wants to tu...
I have had the pleasure of spending some time on the VeloCITI business incubation programme with Brett Simpson of Breadbin Interactive, one of the entrepreneurs going through the paces of taking a technology-focused business to the greater South Afri...
No one can deny that much of the Western world is bent on pursuing cold cash. Ask a bunch of high-school graduates what they want to do when they leave school and nine out of 10 will say: "We want to make money."
So, if making money is important t...
The famous Australian based web community site Sitepoint, originally founded in a roundabout way in 1997, launched its "new look" front page this week. A pretty mixed response it has received, and as I often tend to do, I'll try to remain as unbiased...
On Twitter today, Web Goldenboy Charl Norman posed the question: "When will Twitter innovate?"
(Watch this video if you're unfamiliar with Twitter)
I suspect that Charl means to ask when Twitter will add more features, such as those seen in Plu...
Well-run smaller companies are often agile and responsive, in short, they are communication innovators -- more so when compared to the giant corporate dinosaurs at the top of the financial food chain. This realisation became most apparent after a rec...
Everyone knows that it’s about who you know and not what you know.. Being someone who is heavily involved in the online market, I’m continually dropping tweets, answering friend requests and plugging away at my keyboard on myriad instant messagin...
It’s taken me more than a little while to get round to breaking the seal on this blog. For openers, I'm taking the easy way out and plumping for a rant about two South African business sectors whose digital incarnations leave a lot to be desired.
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